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“They would not help me before the quake. Why would I bother to ask them now?
Haitian community activist Rea Dol talks about SOPUDEP the school she started in 2000, the struggles to keep it going and surviving the earthquake… without the help of the “Republic of NGO’s”. This is...
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One tyranny is the spawn of a hundred more
Kali Akuno critiques the notion of ‘humanitarian interventionism” which he describes as an ideological and strategic tool of neoliberalism….. a tool developed through the auspices of NATO (North...
View ArticleUN figures on aid to Haiti dont add up
I made a serious error on the title of this post – it should read UN and not US. The UN’s claim that three months after the earthquake it has reached most of the one and half million displaced is...
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In /humanitarian aid
This afternoon I got soaked in a torrential down pour in South Florida. First thing I thought about was all the people living outside or in tents in Haiti. After I got myself nicely showered and dry...
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Occupation of Haiti consolidated
Beverley Bell explains that in “ceding it’s independence”, the Haitian government and the US led [re]construction has allowed the Haitian earthquake to be used to consolidate the foreign occupation of...
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What happened after the earthquake: Interview with community activist, Rea Dol
Rea Dol is the Director and co-founder of Society of Providence United for the Economic Development of Petion-Ville (SOPUDEP), a grassroots organization in Haiti offering education for children and...
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Fundraising appeal for SOPUDEP school, Haiti.
Fundraising appeal for SOPUDEP (Society of Providence United for the Economic Development of Petion-Ville) in Port-au-Prince. The school was started in 2002 by community activist Rea Dol to provide...
View ArticleHaiti: “Foul water is killing people” and we need to think of new ways of giving
Haitians are now dying of dirty water and insanitary conditions which they have been forced to endure for the past 10 months. Over 250,000 Haitians have already died as a result of the earthquake...
View ArticleHaiti: Before and After – A year later
I recently finished my second reading of “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work” [Excellent Review here] I consider Danticat to be a courageous writer. She is not afraid to expose her...
View ArticleHaiti Can Hold Me
In remembering and honouring all those who died on January 12th 2010 I would also like to honour those who have survived the awfulness of this past 12 months. Quite rightly blogs and some media are...
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Build houses and clean up the streets
A two-bed house built in Nigeria by DARE out of recycled plastic bottles filled with sand and plastered with mud and cement with the additional benefit of being earthquake resistant. More here….
View ArticleHaiti January 12, 2010 revisited – where disaster is profitable for some.
I have had two visits to Haiti in the past 12 months, for a month in November/December 2010 and a week in October/November 2011. Nearly a year apart in time but with very little improvement. Ah yes, a...
View ArticleIn the ruins of the majestic Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L’Assomption
Destroyed on 12thJanuary, 2010, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L’Assomption remains majestic, it’s pink and cream walls towering over the city of Port-au-Prince. The Cathédrale is now open to the sky –...
View Article12th January, 2010
Tuesday 12th January 2010 began like all other weekdays in the Dol house hold. The children, all in their teens, woke at 5.30am and in the half sleep readied themselves quietly and left for school in...
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Haiti: From AIDS to Aid, an [Un]Humanitarian Story
The third anniversary on January 12, 2013 of the earthquake in Haiti was marked yet again by a flood of new reports, opinions, facts and figures: a repetition of the past two years in terms of the lack...
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Mambu Badu – A New Way of Seeing [Photography]
“Mambu Badu is a photography collective founded in 2010 by Allison McDaniel, Kameelah Rasheed, and Danielle Scruggs. The collective’s mission is to find, expose, and nurture emerging self-identified...
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Haiti: – People Cleansing, burning down the camps
Last Saturday, Haitian police burned and broke up Camp Acra 2, at Petion-Ville. The destruction of the camp and forced removal of people is part of the people cleansing which has included removal and...
View ArticleBAYAKOU: – Why I’m talking shit & cholera on World Water Day*
We are born, we eat, we shit. And so it continues till at the end we pass on. We talk about birth, about maternal health, choices we have or don’t have on birthing methods, on reproductive rights. We...
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Haiti: The Last Camp Standing
On Monday 19th August 4 residents of Camp Acra & Adoquin and their lawyer Patrice Florvilus were summoned to court following criminal charges laid by Reynold George, the claimed owner of a...
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Haiti: Occasional Musings 21, Environmental cost of construction boom [Photo...
The construction boom in Haiti driven by Diasporan money, UN [MINUSTAH] and government funds is destroying the local environment around the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Hillsides are being cut away and...
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